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"Keeping in mind the deteriorating situation in that country, India decided to assist Afghan people by supplying humanitarian aid. In this endeavor, we have supplied several shipments of humanitarian assistance totaling 50,000 metric tons of wheat," said the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

The region that runs south of the Sahara Desert is currently experiencing some of its driest conditions in many years. In just 3 years, the number of people marching toward starvation has skyrocketed from 3.6 million to 10.5 million in five countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger.

“We’re facing famine in Yemen….there’s 16 million innocent victims of this unnecessary man-made war, struggling to get food every single day. Eleven million are IPC level 3, which means they’re at a crisis level. 5 million are at emergency level and 50,000 are in famine-like conditions.” “We’re running out of money as we speak… we need about US$ 860 million just to avert famine.

The latest IPC report, which is produced by the Government of Haiti in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other partners, states that 4.35 million Haitians are facing acute food insecurity between August 2023 to February 2024, compared to 4.9 million in the previous period of analysis (March to Jun

“The world is shaken by compounding crises. The fallout of the war in Ukraine is adding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that now enters its third year, while climate change and increased fragility and conflict pose persistent harm to people around the globe.

Ministers, the EU Commissioner and the Executive Director expressed their deep preoccupation with regards to the aggravation of food insecurity around the world.

The longest drought in the Horn of Africa’s recorded history has left 4.4 million people in Kenya facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Almost 1.5 million young children and women are acutely malnourished and nearly 3 million livestock have perished. “The hunger emergency in Kenya is far from over.

With COVID-19 containment measures limiting people’s movement, WFP has introduced measures to ensure that beneficiaries receive their entitlements in as safe a way as possible.

Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family. At the time, agriculture was the main source of income for many in the area and the couple thought it would be easy to make ends meet.

South Sudan is facing one of its hungriest years since independence with 7.76 million people expected to be in crisis or worse levels of hunger (IPC3+).